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Thank you Parallax and SRLM

LevLev Posts: 182
edited 2014-08-10 17:49 in General Discussion
I just got home from the Boston Expo. Good fun, and great to match names and faces.

A sincere thanks to Parallax and Publison for the Hydra kit. Thanks very much! I bought the book long ago because of my interested in graphics, but never got around to buying the hardware. After I get familiar with it I'll take it to school and get students going with it. They will love the "retro" graphics!l

I also brought home some cool weather station parts kindly donated by SRLM in the parts swap, soon to become part of a Propeller powered high school weather station. Gotta go, lots of work to do :).

Sincerely,
Lev

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  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-08-09 17:47
    I must add the Hydra was given out for the best presentation. It was donated by Parallax. I was just the messenger. :)

    Rich and Scott did a brilliant PowerPoint presentation on High Altitude Balloon deployments using the Propeller to collect data.

    It was a great first expo. Thanks to David, (vanmunch), for getting this together. There was good talk about making next years better.
  • LevLev Posts: 182
    edited 2014-08-09 18:19
    Publison wrote: »
    I must add the Hydra was given out for the best presentation. It was donated by Parallax. I was just the messenger. :)

    Rich and Scott did a brilliant PowerPoint presentation on High Altitude Balloon deployments using the Propeller to collect data.

    It was a great first expo. Thanks to David, (vanmunch), for getting this together. There was good talk about making next years better.

    Oops. +1 for Dave, who I neglected to mention. Sorry Dave. The planning was good, the company was good, and the discussion was good. I was just telling my wife about your seed planting and weed pulling robots. Jaw dropping stuff!

    Lev
  • David BetzDavid Betz Posts: 14,516
    edited 2014-08-09 18:22
    Yes, it was a great event. Thanks to everyone who helped and especially for Dave for organizing it!
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2014-08-09 19:23
    Dave, thanks for organizing the event.

    It was good to meet all of you face to face. Sorry I had to duck out early, but I'm a single parent this weekend.
  • David BetzDavid Betz Posts: 14,516
    edited 2014-08-09 19:30
    Seeing and hearing about all of everyone's interesting projects got me thinking thinking that I need to do one of my own. I did a Christmas ornament last year but it was really nothing but a PropMini and an AdaFruit NeoPixel LED ring and a C port of JonnyMac's WS2812 driver. I'm now thinking of converting my old BoeBot into an ActivityBot...
  • Ding-BattyDing-Batty Posts: 302
    edited 2014-08-10 09:30
    Yes, thanks to Dave for organizing the event, and to all the attendees for interesting presentations and conversations. Just what I needed for some motivation to find some more Project Time...
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-08-10 09:35
    And thank you Ken and Parallax for providing for the Freebie Table!

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  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    edited 2014-08-10 09:46
    You are all very welcome.

    If I had more time I could've boxed up a lot more items, but the last couple of weeks have been fairly intense - perhaps the most we've ever had to achieve in a short time at Parallax. In two weeks we released the ELEV-8, finished 13,600 DEFCON badges, licensed and opened the Propeller Verilog. I'm looking forward to Labor Day weekend at this stage...three days yeah!

    Ken Gracey
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-08-10 10:16
    A few more random pictures from the Expo.
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  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-08-10 10:19
    And one more

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    Dave (Vanmouch), standing.

    Back to front:

    Scott, another teacher friend that does the High Altitude Balloon Launches with Lev. (Not sure if he is on the forums yet).
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    Not sure if Dave got a picture of me.
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  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2014-08-10 10:52
    I like the line following Elev-8! That's a really cool idea! :lol:

    I recognize Dave from his Ohio appearances....the rest of you need captions so we can match people with avatars and forum names.

    I guess this means we'll need pictures from Orrville on the 30th.
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2014-08-10 10:57
    Thanks! I really enjoyed the meetup as well. I'm impressed with how compact the Propeller 1 Verilog code is: the image is the entire P1 printed out!
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  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-08-10 11:26
    mindrobots wrote: »
    I like the line following Elev-8! That's a really cool idea! :lol:

    I figured someone would pick up on that. With a broken blade I couldn't fly it, so I though...maybe a maze. :)

    EDIT: Names post in Post #11
  • AGCBAGCB Posts: 327
    edited 2014-08-10 13:40
    The pictures! :smile: Was glad to see a bunch of 'mature' looking guys like me. Even prompted me to add my photo to my post name.

    Aaron
  • AGCBAGCB Posts: 327
    edited 2014-08-10 13:45
    Picture too big 1st time. try again
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    edited 2014-08-10 13:51
    How is it that SRLM wound up at this expo? Last time we spoke he was living out west, near us.

    Ken Gracey
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-08-10 15:05
    Ken Gracey wrote: »
    How is it that SRLM wound up at this expo? Last time we spoke he was living out west, near us.

    Ken Gracey

    I thought so too, Ken. But the last time i PM'd him, he said he moved to Boston over a year ago.

    Good to have him on the "right" coast.

    (As opposed to the "left" coast as we call Cali.) No politics implied. :)
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2014-08-10 15:12
    Looks like a good time! Thanks for posting pictures! We'll make sure we get some shots at the Orrville show coming up!

    Jeff
  • vanmunchvanmunch Posts: 568
    edited 2014-08-10 15:31
    I had a blast at the Expo! It was so much fun meeting everyone and being able to have conversations in "real time" :) The presentations were great and everyone was working on so many neat projects. It's always a huge motivator. :)

    Attached are some pictures from the Saturday event, I forgot to take any pictures Friday night.

    I want to especially thank my wife for baking cookies, helping me get everything together, and making sure we had lunch Saturday. :)

    We should think about organizing another one in the spring?

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  • vanmunchvanmunch Posts: 568
    edited 2014-08-10 15:33
    Two more pictures. :)
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  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2014-08-10 15:37
    Ken Gracey wrote: »
    How is it that SRLM wound up at this expo? Last time we spoke he was living out west, near us.

    Ken Gracey

    Yep. I'm trying out the city life. Except for the outrageous rents (#3 in the nation) it's a great experience. My favorite part is the Charles river: beautiful bike rides and fun sailing at Community Boating. There's also some good tech meetings (IEEE Entrepreprenours Network and IEEE Consultant Network along with a great swap meet.
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2014-08-10 15:54
    SRLM wrote: »
    Yep. I'm trying out the city life. Except for the outrageous rents (#3 in the nation) it's a great experience. My favorite part is the Charles river: beautiful bike rides and fun sailing at Community Boating. There's also some good tech meetings (IEEE Entrepreprenours Network and IEEE Consultant Network along with a great swap meet.

    I learned to sail at Community Boating 21 years ago. It's a lot of fun, and if you're a member I would suggest going on a harbor trip if they still have them. On Sundays the city of Cambridge closes down Memorial drive on Sundays which is fun to skate, run, or bike on.
    Publison wrote: »
    And one more

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    Dave (Vanmouch), standing.

    Back to front:

    Scott, another teacher friend that does the High Altitude Balloon Launches with Lev. (Not sure if he is on the forums yet).
    David Betz
    Lev
    Harrord_H
    Ding-Batty
    SRLM

    Not sure if Dave got a picture of me.

    Looking at the picture I think you mislabeled me as Harrord_H instead of Martin_H. Although I was tempted to remain anonymous as no one on the Internet knows you're a 'mature' guy.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-08-10 16:10
    Martin_H wrote: »
    I learned to sail at Community Boating 21 years ago. It's a lot of fun, and if you're a member I would suggest going on a harbor trip if they still have them. On Sundays the city of Cambridge closes down Memorial drive on Sundays which is fun to skate, run, or bike on.



    Looking at the picture I think you mislabeled me as Harrord_H instead of Martin_H. Although I was tempted to remain anonymous as no one on the Internet knows you're a 'mature' guy.

    Will fix right away!

    Jim
  • vanmunchvanmunch Posts: 568
    edited 2014-08-10 17:49
    Jim, we need to make sure you give a presentation next time about all of the cool animatronic stuff you work on. It would be especially neat to see any pictures or videos and thanks again for bring your quad rover!
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